A report on subway performance issued this week by the Straphangers Campaign, a rider-advocacy group, reinforced an impression that service is fraying.
Only obsequious words about Blatter's forced exit – "a difficult decision, a brave decision" – which reinforced the impression that a new Fifa needs incalculably more moral fibre than this.
During his first appearance of the 1929 season he performed well but suffered a strain in his next game, which reinforced an impression in the press articulated by Pelham Warner among others that he was injury-prone and inclined to hypochondria.
In recent weeks German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the French president, François Hollande, have been in direct talks with Vladimir Putin to try to broker a ceasefire, reinforcing the impression that a Franco-German motor is at the heart of EU foreign policy.
Her shifting positions on the issues have only reinforced an impression that she stands for nothing – a calculating robot who trims every word to the prevailing political winds.
The scrimmage also reinforced an impression made obvious at training camp: the Giants defense is too good for the Giants offense.
But he also suggested that Mr. Gore's posture over the bill has reinforced an impression that the vice president is overly cautious and calculating.
The skillful use of flying buttresses made it possible to build extremely tall, thin-walled buildings whose interior structural system of columnar piers and ribs reinforced an impression of soaring verticality.
All of which reinforced an impression that the economy had broken free from the usual boom-and-bust cycles.Crucially, both were property-related bubbles, commercial in Japan and residential in America.
Ms Rousseff has rowed back from that friendship, but it reinforced an impression that Brazil is unpredictable and naive.Mr Obama will surely want to know, too, what exactly Brazil means by its big new foreign-policy idea.
But the public, through reading through the dossier, would not have known of them". It said Mr Blair's statement to the Commons that the dossier was "extensive, detailed and authoritative" could have reinforced an impression among lay readers that "there was fuller and firmer intelligence behind the judgments than was the case".
